Issue 13, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Electrochemical synthesis of small-sized red fluorescent graphene quantum dots as a bioimaging platform†

Xiaoyun Tan,a   Yunchao Li,a   Xiaohong Li,a   Shixin Zhou,b   Louzhen Fan*a  and  Shihe Yang*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
E-mail: lzfan@bnu.edu.cn

b Department of Cell Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

c Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Abstract

We report water-soluble, 3 nm uniform-sized graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with red emission prepared by electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in K2S2O8 solution. Such GQDs show a great potential as biological labels for cellular imaging.

Graphical abstract: Electrochemical synthesis of small-sized red fluorescent graphene quantum dots as a bioimaging platform

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC09332A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Nov 2014
Accepted
23 Dec 2014
First published
08 Jan 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 2544-2546

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Electrochemical synthesis of small-sized red fluorescent graphene quantum dots as a bioimaging platform

X. Tan, Y. Li, X. Li, S. Zhou, L. Fan and S. Yang, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 2544 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC09332A

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